Means for attaching buttons to cards



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A. HAENxcKE MEANS FOR ATIIAGHING BUTTONS T0 CARDS Filed May 25, 1925 Jzz venian @www Patented Apr. 26, 1927.

UITED STATES 1,625,337 PATENT ie.

ARTHUR HAENICKE, F BERLIN-TEMPELHOF, GERMANY.

MEANS FOR ATTACI-IING BUTTONS TO CARDS.

Application led May 25, 1925, Serial No. 32,829, and in Germany May 30, 1924.

The invention relates to an article of manufacture comprising a plurality of buttons fastened to a card by means of a single thread stitehed'so that each button is fixed Vin a safe and simple) manner on the card, at the same time making it possible to detach each individual button without Cutting the thread, for instance, for the purpose of selling a button from the card without detaching or loosening the adjoining buttons.

A method for vstitching buttons on cards by means of a thread is already known, however, the known methods have the disadvantage that for the purpose of detaching one button the thread must be Cut and that after detaching the one button the other buttons are loosened, so that they fall off from the card.

In the drawing is shown a button fastened on a card, according t-o this invention.:

Fig. l is a sectional detail partly in elevation showing how a loop is drawn through the first hole of a button fixed on a card.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing how the loop is taken oil' by a gripper in the downward movement of the needle. n,

Fig. 3 is asimilar View showing the needle in a position in which it is to be inserted in the second hole of the button, while the gripper holdsl the loop.

Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the formation of the loop in the second hole of the button. n

Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the introduction of the first loop into the second loop by the gripper, while the needle moves downward.

Fig. 6 is a similar view showing how the first loop is impressed by the .second loop while the gripper moves backward and shortly before the needle is pulled out, and

Fig. 7 is a similar view showing'y an already fixed button and the needle in a posi-- tion in which it is ready to fasten a second r butto-n upon the card.

The needle l pulls the thread 2, (as shown in Figure 1) from below through the card 3 and one button hole of the button 8 which is to be attached. In Figure 2 the needle goes again downwards and in doing so the thread 2 forms, right and left of the needle, a loop. Now, the gripper 5 catches the loop 6 which is formed by the end of the thread running from theV needle.

Figure 3 shows the needle l aft-er it has been pulled out entirely 'and after it has moved to the side and to the point where the second penetration shall be made. This second stitch is formed in Figure ll. When the needle l, as shown in Figure 5, moves downward again loops are again-formed, and the gripper 5 shifts thc loop 6 which has been held back before, throughthe loop 7 which is lformed by the end of the thread running trom thc needle.

The gripper 5 is drawn back during the second downward movement of the needle l so that the loop 7 tightly surrounds the l loop 6 as it is shown in Figure 6.

In the further downward movement of the lneedle the loop 7 pulls the loop 6 into the hole of the button, so that in this hole six thicknessesof the thread are present and the outer end of theloop 6 is held fast by the strong friction of vthe various thread parts within the button hole. Hereafter, the card is further moved by the distance of a but-ton and lthe process of stitching is re'- peated. i

Figure 7 shows how the loop 6 is drawn into the button hole by the loop 7 and how the card has been already moved by theV distance of the buttons in order to begin with the fastening ofthe neXt button 9 Having thus fully described the invention, what is-claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is i l. As an article vof manufacture, a plurality of buttons attached to a card by means of a single thread 'each button being singly detachable and attached by a stitch consisting of a pair of single loops passing through two holes in each button, the first loop passing over the button from theone hole to the other and being drawn through the second loop and pulled into the second hole thusv having in this hole six thicknesses of thread.

l2. As an article of manufacture, a plu rality of buttons attached to a card by means of a single thread, each button being singly detachable and attached to the' card by a .stitch consisting of a pair of single loops` passing through two holes in each button,

the first loop passing over the button from the one vhole to the other and being drawn through the second loop and pulled into the second hole and pressed upon the card thus having in the second hole six thicknesses of thread. f

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ARTHUR HAENICKE. 

